That's crazy!! How do you like it so far?
Rambling response incoming:
So we bought the whole system. VR headest plus the walking base. We already had a quest3, so we could have just bought the base, but thought to try the whole ecosystem.
The whole unit was $3500.
They gave us a free month subscription to their game package, which turns out to be 2 arena style shooters, a travel walking simulator, and a basic get to know vr loading area. $15 a month to continue wasnt worth it, so we didnt continue past the first month.
Any more games had to be purchased seperately and be contained in their own store/ecosystem. Plus they dont have seperate user profiles, so any and all activity tracking is under one profile. Decided against buying games in another closed garden.
The whole app ecosystem seems like they were hoping to make great hardware and get purchased/integrated by meta.
They thankfully have steamvr integration which works pretty great. They have about 80 games with steam hardware profiles which works pretty good as far as we have tested.
We bought a few humble bundle VR bundles so have 30 or so games to try out.
Been playing arizona sunshine, while wife plays alyx. The foot trackers work great, as is having the harness to keep from falling over.
Walking is def a learning curve, as is strafing, and backing up. Still using the controller movements when i get stuck sometimes, but less and less.
They just announced that they are adding meta integration, so will be nice to eventually run the quest3 meta games as well.
So so far, great hardware. Probably would have been better to grab a second quest3/3s instead and the walking base would have been only $2500.
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